All of the static electricity in the air with the recent thunderstorms and rain we have been having in California seems to have fried the brain of our most illustrious, self-appointed, doubly blessed, world-renowned authority on everything, the Great Bwana to Africa and the occasional 100 Caucasians. He is back today blessing us with his pithy comments.
After reading the things I posted about Alton Billingsley HERE on this blog, he decided to quote the exact same things I did, then added more comments about other self-appointed false prophets, both in the Church of God and in the pagan, heathen, unconverted, world.
As usual, his main go-to source for information is WorldNetDaily, a favorite of some of the prophecy addicts in the Church of God movement.
The Great Bwana Bob Mzungu writes:
Though World Net Daily often has items of interest, it has a history of promoting false prophets.
WTH???? Seriously dude, take a look at Armstrongism and its hundreds and hundreds of splinter groups and the certified liars that fill its ranks, from now-deceased so-called evangelists, ministers, and other prophecy addicts masquerading as loyal mouthpieces of God to today's raving lunatics! Considering your history of lies it is pretty hypocritical to accuse others outside of Armstrongism or in the church of being false prophets considering your abysmal record!
Earlier this week, it pushed Jonathan Cahn again. Cahn is a Messianic Jew who has repeatedly been wrong about blood moons, Shemitah years, and other matters (e.g. ‘Warning Signs of America’s Destruction – Jonathan Cahn’).
Now, World Net Daily is calling a Protestant minister, who I have denounced here multiple times, Mark Biltz a biblical expert:
Biblical expert: Solar eclipse to mark ‘beginning of judgment upon America’
April’s total darkness will be ‘a uniquely powerful sign from God,’ says author-pastor
February 19, 2024
ISRAEL – An unusual total solar eclipse that will traverse North America in April has some biblical experts pointing to a deeper significance of the event, especially in light of today’s extremely unsettled times.
With a deep understanding of classical Jewish and Christian sources, Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries is sharing his insights into the upcoming solar eclipse that will take place on Monday, April 8, 2024. …
“From a biblical point of view, a solar eclipse is meant to be a sign from God,” said Biltz, …
“If you refer to NASA’s data, there’s been a total of 12,000 total solar eclipses all over the world listed over a 5,000-year time period,” said Biltz. …
Pastor Biltz was puzzled by the appearance of four blood moons in 2014-2015. If the celestial events were signs, what did the blood moons signify? In an epiphany, he realized that the celestial signs were part of a much larger cycle based in the Hebrew calendar. The Hebrew year that began on Rosh Hashanah in September 2014 marked the beginning of a seven-year Shemitah (sabbatical) cycle.
“This is not a random seven-year cycle,” Biltz emphasized. “Rosh Hashanah in 2014 marked the beginning of the Hebrew year 5775. The Shemittah years all go back to Creation. If you divide 5775 by 7, it is precisely 825. September 2014, or, more accurately, the first of Tishrei 5775, was the 825th Shemittah cycle since God created the world.”
After connecting the blood moons to the Shemitah cycle, Biltz realized they had prophetic significance: They came as a sign to herald war. …
According to the world's most PERFECT 'christian', Mark Blitz is a Protestant and as everyone in Armstrongism knows about Protestants. he is NOT a real Church of God Christian.
Both Mark Biltz, Jonathan Cahn, and WND’s founder Joseph Farah consider themselves to be ‘Messianic Jews.’ While this means that they will avoid biblically unclean meats, keep the Sabbath, observe the biblical holy days, and hold to parts of a few Church of God doctrines, the Messianics are NOT Church of God Christians. Like the Seventh-day Adventists, they are basically a type of Protestant.
The Great Bwana Mzungu of Africa and the occasional 100 Caucasians then moves on to Alton Billingsley.
Now, there are also COG-associated leaders who make wrong predictions. Church of God Faithful Flock’s Don Billingsley was promoting nonsense like Hillary Clinton would be president now, that Donald Trump would remain in office, and other such nonsense.
He is also wrong about many other things. Notice something he wrote in a post:
The Ezekiel WATCHMAN“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful Day of the LORD!”Malachi 4:5; Matthew 17:10-11Alton B. (Don) BillingsleyThe Immanency of the Coming of Jesus Christ …:In view of Prophetic Biblical teachings, connected with major disastrous events, now occurring, and projected to worsen on a national and international scale over the next few years, strongly implies Jesus Christ will be standing on this earth in the year-2029. …They also make known this nation is in mortal danger of being destroyed, as a nation, along with Britain, and other nations of Israel, in the year 2026 … Prophesied to be destroyed by a super-power far greater than America.Though it has not yet appeared, it is prophesied to be fully developed by the year-2024. https://www.cog-ff.com/ezekiel.html accessed 02/20/24No, none of that is right. 2029 is simply too early for Jesus to be able to return by then.
Because there are many false and heretical leaders that lead people astray on prophecy and sometimes they mention the Bible to try to act like God sanctions their nonsense, they should be denounced as false.
Pot calling the kettle black, again! The hypocrisy of the Great Bwana knows no ends.
While that has been appropriate for those I have denounced, sadly most end time Christians have been self-satisfied and/or relied on the dismissal of others to overlook what God’s word says God would be doing at this time related to prophets.
Oh my! Apparently, all COG members have relied upon the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu to tell them who and who are not real prophets in the church and are now befuddled as to who is right! I guess they have thrown Bob out of the door along with all the other COG lying false prophets. Such a tragedy!
To counter this shocking trend, the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu has to trot of Norm Edwards as some kind of authority on prophets in the Church of God. Seriously dude, Edwards was already being discredited as a whack job BEFORE the Worldwide Church of God ever broke up. Norm is just like you in that you both set yourselves up as authorities on subjects you know very little about.
Norman Edwards, a former employee of the old WCG and later a former board member of the old Global Church of God, wrote the following:
There are over 40 separate passages about prophets and their prophecies in the New Testament—so many that one might easily get tired of reading them! … If we want God to show us what will happen in the future, we need to “desire earnestly to prophesy” (1 Cor 14:39). It is a New Testament teaching we must not ignore! …
Do people today have faith that God is able to prophecy through people …?
1Jo 4:1-2 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
Note: If there were no true prophets, there would be no need to “test the spirits”—because every prophet would be a “false prophet”. But because there are both true prophets and false prophets, we need to “test the spirits”. (Edwards N. Need Prophets More than Prophecy. Shepherd’s Voice, Fall 2013)
The Great Bwana Bob Mzungu Thiel needs to continually trot out Edwards as PROOF that he and he alone is the one true prophet of the Church of God today.
The Great Bwana Bob Mzungu knows that he has been lumped in alongside all of the other lying Church of God false prophets over the last 8 decades. Church members understand this and even a lot of people in the public understand this. This is a sore spot that the Great Bwana is unable to shake off. Since 99.99% of the COG has completely ignored him he has to resort to the blame game. Since it is the only REAL one in the church, members need to be supporting him. He then proceeds to call out those who do not support him as LAZY and UNWISE.
The existence of false prophets does NOT excuse not supporting a real one.
Consider that the Book of Proverbs warns:
16 The lazy man is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who can answer sensibly. (Proverbs 26:16)
Now, most end time Christians do not believe that they are lazy, but wise.
Yet, they overlook evidence because they are uncomfortable with the idea that there could now be a prophet that they should heed.
It is NOT safer to reject a true prophet because there are many false ones.
The Great Bwana then has to drag in Leroy Neff as proof that he and he alone exhibits all the qualifications to be a prophet:
Back in 1986, then WCG evangelist L. Leroy Neff (now deceased) wrote a lot about how to identify a true prophet as well as what is not required:
“How can you tell the impostor from the true servant of God? The answer will probably be quite surprising to many people because they are using an unscriptural basis for evaluation” …
What are the credentials?
Some people would look to a prophet’s or minister’s credentials. He would be accepted if he were educated at a recognized theological institution. Others would look for a minister’s popularity, his charisma, his personality or his speaking ability.
But the Scriptures show that God’s servants have sometimes not had these qualities or credentials. They were not graduates of the recognized theological institutions of their day. Moses had trouble speaking in public (Exodus 4: 10). Jeremiah was “too young” (Jeremiah 1:6). Paul lacked certain speech abilities (I Corinthians 2: 1, II Corinthians 10:10). Even Jesus Himself had no outstanding personal characteristics that set Him apart from others, as the religious leaders had to pay Judas to point Him (Matthew 26:47-49).
Some would expect to find a true minister or prophet in a large and beautiful church building. Yet, during the history of the early Church, there is no mention of church buildings. Instead we read that the Church was not a building at all, but the people who were called out of this world to become the Church. The people (the Church) met in various buildings, sometimes in Church members’ homes (Romans 16:5, I Corinthians 16:19, Philemon 2). Paul preached for two years while under house arrest in rented facilities. He probably had both living quarters and a meeting hall of some kind (Acts 28:30-31).
Jesus said His followers would not be many in number, but would be comparatively few: “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32). (Neff LL. Imposter–or–True Prophet — Which? Good News, December 1986, pp. 10-11)
There is a reason the Great Bwana has to quote Leroy Neff and that is because Neff said that some prophets do not need credentials, such as legitimate theological education or have a lot of followers. Given that Bwana Bob has a "diploma" out of a double-wide trailer in India, supposedly theology, a degree that has been thoroughly discredited by Gavin Rumney and others over the years.
A true prophet would not need to be from a major theological institution, have the most magnanimous personality, be charismatic, or have a necessarily impressive Church. He also does not have to have had a ministerial background. Nor does the prophet even, like apparently the Apostle Paul per 2 Corinthians 10:10 and 11:6 or Moses per Exodus 4:10 or Jeremiah per Jeremiah 1:6, need to be a great speaker. God chooses who His prophets are.
Yes, we know you have no real theology degree. We do know for a fact your personality is shockingly lacking in charisma, so much so that you come off as a sideshow and as a rather hilarious comedy routine at times.
Yes, God may pick a selection who were prophets, but we all know for a FACT that you are not appointed by God and that he had absolutely NOTHING to do with your self-appointed prophethood status. That is an indisputable fact. Besides, in the New Covenant, there is no need for prophets.
Then, the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu has to drag up his same old schtick about how he dreams dreams, AND that he wears the Philadelphia mantle, which in reality is just more COG crap theology.
The Apostle Peter stated:
17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. 18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy. (Acts 2:17-18)
Are these the last days?
If so, God should be using dreams and prophets.
Do you believe that?
All should REALLY pay attention to the Bible.
The apostles were confirmed by signs that followed them (Mark 16:20) and there have been signs that have confirmed the leadership of the Continuing Church of God. And the old Radio/Worldwide Church of God pointed to a dream that preceded its formation in becoming the group to originally hold the Philadelphia mantle.
He then continues to blackball all Church of God members and all Christians as fake because no one will follow him. Lobbing the Laodicean epitaph at COG members is just another scare tactic of desperate theologically bankrupt COG ministers. And, don't forget boys and girls, since you refuse to follow the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu you will NOT know when it is time to flee to Petra and be taught by him for 3 1/2 years.
Laodiceans are the bulk of end time Christians–not only are they NOT promised protection from what is coming, they are admonished by Jesus to repent. Yet, they feel that they are in need of nothing–which, in the case, includes the need to believe and heed any who claim to be a prophet.
Therefore, and this is the main point of my bringing church eras into this, IT WILL NOT BE CLEAR TO MOST END TIME CHRISTIANS THAT GOD HAS A PROPHET (OR PROPHETS) AND THAT THEY NEED TO HEED HIM WHEN HE GIVES THE MESSAGES THAT GOD WANTS GIVEN.
If so, all would know to flee when it is time and the Bible is clear that not all Christians would flee.
The absurdities by Great Bwana just get worse. Apparently, he believes the creature he calls 'jesus' is knocking on the hearts of all COG members and ex-members to try and wake everyone up to the fact that the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu is the one true 21st century property! See, I told you the absurdities were getting worse!
Recall that Jesus says He is knocking, yet the Laodiceans were not listening.
The Bible teaches:
1 Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins. (Isaiah 58:1)
Isn’t that something a 21st century prophet would be doing?
Consider that multiple thousands of Church of God members, including the ministry, have heard warnings from places such as the COGwriter Church of God News page. Yet, the vast majority have failed to sufficiently respond to Jesus’ words about being Laodicean or what I post on that as well as other theological and prophetic subjects.
Since Jesus pointed to the last church of Revelation 2 & 3 needing to repent, plus only promised the Philadelphian Christians protection from the coming hour of trial, plus we know from what the Apostle Peter said there would be prophets in the last days, and that the last generation Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24 would see the return of Jesus in the 21st century, how would God appoint a 21st century prophet?
The Great Bwana's so-called 'jesus' is so ticked off with everyone ignoring the one true 21st century prophet that he is no longer going to send a sign due to the fact everyone is evil and adulterous.
Constantly being stung by the fact that the entire Church of God movement ignores him and calls him out as a self-appointed false prophet, the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu has to use any means he can to support his self appointment, even if it means dragging out Jesus when he thinks it would sound good to do so.Would He do some dramatic miracle to make it clear to all end time Christians?
No.
Jesus also refused to do a dramatic one on more than one ocassion when pressed to prove who He was (Matthew 12:38). He then said:
“An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign” (Matthew 12:39)
Interestingly, the old Radio and Worldwide Church of God taught that God used dreams and would in the last days, yet most in the COGs today seem not to accept that.
Jesus said that a true prophet will basically self-declare:
40 “He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. 41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. (Matthew 10:40-41)
Yes, if you can accept a true prophet who declares he is a prophet, yes, you can get the reward of a prophet.
Then, the best part of all in his article, he lashes out at Banned, Terry Nelson, and Gavin Rumney for constantly making him look like a fool! Delightful! We wear that badge with honor!
Yet, throughout history, people said bad things about God’s prophets (e.g. Jeremiah 43:1-7).
Jesus said:
11 Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. (Matthew 5:11-12)
Many once nominally part of the COG (e.g. see Banned by HWA and Ambassador Watch) as well as many inside still claiming to be have said false and evil things against me (e.g. see Can Christians Actually be Cursed By Witches or Witch Doctors?).
Do not accept false prophets. Do not, however, believe it is safer to not accept God’s criteria for prophets.
If you really were a prophet sent by God, people would know. However, everyone in the. Living Church of God, from its leaders and ministers down to the everyday members knows that you are a fraud and a false prophet. Kudos to them! Everyone in the other COG groups knows that you are a liar and false preheat. That is why the entire Church of God movement has REJECTED YOU! Even when people leave LCG, RCG, PCG, and other groups they still DO NOT join up with you. Everyone knows! Everyone knows!
The Great Bwana Bob Mzungu then proceeds to claim that he now has over 9,000 members, but fails to mention that 8,900 of them live in Africa with little internet access and are led by men who church hop from one Adventist/sabbatarian group to the next looking for whoever gives them the most money. Numbers are important to the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu. Constantly telling other COG people that he has more members than they do makes him feel good and keeps his heart puffed up with vanity. Classic signs of a narcissist.
Even Herbert Armstrong had to be dug up out of his grave to support the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu:
The late Pastor General of the old Worldwide Church of God, Herbert W. Armstrong, taught the following about Romans 11:25:
Now I want you to study carefully one of the most wonderful, important chapters in all the Bible — the 11th of Romans. … Verse 23 says those who abide not still in unbelief shall YET receive salvation. … Now study carefully beginning verse 25: “Blindness in part is happened to Israel [HOW LONG? Forever? No — note it], UNTIL the fulness of the Gentiles be come in” — the end of this age during which God is calling a people from among the gentiles to bear His name (Acts 15:14). (Armstrong HW. Where Will The MILLENNIUM Be Spent? Tomorrow’s Word magazine, September 1971, p. 5)
Where is this occurring most in the Churches of God?
Well in the CCOG where we have had over 9,000 Gentiles come in (see also What About Romans 11:25 and the Full Number of the Gentiles?). Unlike various other x-WCG groups, the vast bulk with us were NOT once part of the old WCG nor were their parents part of the old WCG.
This is a fruit of a prophetic evangelist.
Please accept the criteria that God, not some organization claiming to best represent Him, has set for determining who is a true prophet of God. Do not add non-biblical criteria, which is what most have done.
Accept God’s form of governance, which means how HE ordains leaders. Accept God’s criteria for a prophet.
We in the Continuing Church of God “have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts” (2 Peter 1:19, KJV).”
Use God’s criteria, not your emotions or the opinions of others, to persuade you to prove all things related to prophets and God’s use of dreams.
Absolute nothing the Great Bwana wrote above is criteria from God that we should accept him. The extra-biblical nonsense he has added to enslave his followers is appalling. The morally bankrupt system of "church governance" inherited from the mother church is rotten to the core. No splinter group leader ever respected that-called governance, back then or today.
The improperly named "continuing" Church of "god" no more holds a sure word of prophecy than Dave Pack or Gerald Flurry does.
God's criteria on lying Church of God false prophets is this:
Deuteronomy 18:20
20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”
Ezekiel13:9
My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.
Jeremiah 14:14
Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds.
Jeremiah 23:16
This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
Luke 6:26
Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.
Matthew 24:24
For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect
Matthew 16:11-12
How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
12 Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Acts 20,:28-30
Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
29 I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
30 Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.
2 Peter 3:14-18
So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him.
15 Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him.
16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
17 Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position.
18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.
1 John 4:1-6
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
Matthew 7:15-20
Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
2 Peter 1:20-21
20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things.
21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Titus 1:6-16
Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith
14 and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth.
15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.
